Florence Pugh Says She Was Asked to Lose Weight and Alter Her Face For a Role

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, and Florence Pugh said that when she was 19 and cast as a pop star in a television series in Los Angeles, she was told that she needed to alter her appearance. "All the things that they were trying to change about me—whether it was my weight, my look, the shape of my face, the shape of my eyebrows—that was so not what I wanted to do, or the industry I wanted to work in," Pugh said.

The series was never picked up, so Pugh went back to England and was eventually cast in Lady Macbeth, which really got her noticed and jumpstarted her movie stardom.

This content can also be viewed on the site it from.“That made me fall back in love with cinema—the kind of cinema that was a space where you could be opinionated, and loud, and I've stuck by that,” told The Telegraph. "I think it's far too easy for people in this industry to push you left and right.

And I was lucky enough to discover when I was 19 what kind of a performer I wanted to be."Since, Florence Pugh starred opposite Michael Shannon and Alexander Skarsgård in the 2018 miniseries The Little Drummer Girl, as Amy March in 2019's Little Women (which earned her the Oscar nomination), and she also appears as Yelena Belova, a.k.a.